Hide Caption. Cosby, shown here in , began his career in New York nightclubs as a standup comedian. His clean-cut style became a career mainstay. Cosby feeds one of his children in the mids. Cosby first made his name with his comedic storytelling, often based on his childhood experiences. Cosby was the first African-American to star in an American dramatic series. It later became a live-action film starring Kenan Thompson as Fat Albert.
Phylicia Rashad played his wife, Clair Huxtable. After "The Cosby Show" was another sitcom, "Cosby," which aired from to Cosby played retired airline agent Hilton Lucas. Cosby, who has a doctorate in education, is a strong believer in using television to send educational messages. In , Cosby suffered the loss of his son, Ennis, who was fatally shot on the side of an Los Angeles freeway.
Cosby's series' "Little Bill" used the phrase "Hello, friend" -- Ennis' regular greeting -- in tribute to his son. Cosby shares a laugh with baseball great Hank Aaron after they both received the Presidential Medal of Freedom in The medal is America's highest civilian award. Cosby declined the prize twice before accepting. His mother read Twain to him as a child -- a huge influence on his storytelling. Cosby speaks at the 20th anniversary of the Rev. Al Sharpton's organization, the National Action Network, in In recent years, Cosby has been outspoken on the subjects of poverty, family and responsibility in the black community.
The comedian is active in several charitable causes. Cosby performs at the Buell Theater in Denver in Andrew Wyatt, a Cosby spokesman, raises his fist as Cosby exits a courthouse in Norristown, Pennsylvania, in June Cosby was facing three counts of aggravated indecent assault from a case involving Andrea Constand, an employee at his alma mater, Temple University.
But it ended in a mistrial after a jury was unable to come to a unanimous decision. Constand was the first of more than 50 women who have accused Cosby of sexual misconduct. Cosby has denied wrongdoing. The jury in Cosby's retrial found the TV icon guilty on all three counts in April Birth date: July 12, Birth place: Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
Birth name: William Henry Cosby Jr. Read More. Father: William Henry Sr. Mother: Anna Hite Cosby. Marriage: Camille Hanks Cosby January 25, present. A, ; University of Massachusetts at Amherst, Ed. D, Military service: US Navy, Other Facts. More than 50 women have publicly accused Cosby of raping or assaulting them over the past 40 years.
The comedian vehemently denied any wrongdoing. In April , after two trials, Cosby was convicted of sexually assaulting Andrea Constand in a Philadelphia suburb in After appeal, his conviction was overturned based on violation of his right to due process. Many organizations, including educational, advertising and media, have either rescinded awards and honors, or scrubbed Cosby's name from their websites.
Television spokesman for Jell-O for more than 25 years, beginning in All of his children have names beginning with an E, to represent excellence. Nominated for 17 Grammy Awards and has won nine. Nominated for eight Primetime Emmy Awards and won four.
Photos: Who are Cosby's accusers? More than 50 women have spoken out to various media outlets about allegations of sexual misconduct by Bill Cosby. Here are 25, in chronological order, who have spoken with CNN, spoken on camera about their allegations or been the subject of responses from Cosby's attorneys.
Read more on the allegations and Cosby's denials. In January , Andrea Constand, then a year-old staffer for the women's basketball team at Temple University -- Cosby's alma mater -- was at the comedian's Cheltenham, Pennsylvania, home when Cosby provided her medication that made her dizzy, she alleged the next year. She later woke up to find her bra undone and her clothes in disarray, she further alleged to police in her home province of Ontario, Canada, in January She was the first person to publicly allege sexual assault by Cosby.
The comedian settled a civil suit with Constand that alleged 13 Jane Does had similar stories of sexual abuse. That ended in a mistrial after the jury deadlocked in June , but prosecutors immediately announced they would retry the case.
Janice Dickinson alleged she and Cosby had dinner in Lake Tahoe, Nevada, in and he gave her a glass of red wine and a pill she believed was for menstrual cramps. And I remember a lot of pain," she told "Entertainment Tonight. He liked to tell stories and jokes to his classmates more than he liked to do his schoolwork. One of his teachers encouraged him to put his performing talents to use in school plays, not in her classroom.
At home, Cosby listened to a variety of radio programs and started imitating such comedians as Jerry Lewis. He also watched such television performers as Sid Caesar and Jack Benny whenever he could. While he was more interested in sports than academics — he was active on his school's track and football teams — Cosby was placed in a high school for gifted students after scoring high on an IQ test. But Cosby failed to apply himself and ended up failing tenth grade twice.
He switched to Germantown High School, but the academic issues continued. In frustration, Cosby dropped out of high school. He worked several odd jobs before joining the U.
Navy in During his military service, Cosby worked as a medical aide on ships, in several hospitals and at other facilities. He also joined the Navy's track team, where he excelled, especially in the high jump event. Regretting his decision to drop out of school, Cosby earned his high school equivalency diploma while in the service. After leaving the Navy, he went to Temple University via scholarship.
While at Temple, Cosby landed a job as a bartender at a coffee house. He told jokes there, and eventually landed work filling in for the house comedian from time to time at a nearby club.
Cosby also performed as a warm-up act for his cousin's radio show. He found inspiration in the works of such comedians as Dick Gregory , an African American comic who often talked about racial issues in his routines. Early in his career, Cosby discussed race in his act as well, but he eventually dropped it from his performances, choosing to focus on telling stories about more general and universal themes. Nearly halfway through his college career, Cosby decided to drop out to pursue a career in stand-up comedy.
He started performing at a place in Greenwich Village, New York, and he toured extensively, winning over fans. In , Cosby made his first appearance on Johnny Carson 's Tonight Show , which helped introduce him to a national audience. Cosby would go on to appear on the show dozens of times. He also landed a recording contract and that same year released his first comedy album, Bill Cosby Is a Very Funny Fellow For the remainder of the s, Cosby released hit album after hit album, winning another five Grammys.
He would later pick up two more for his recordings for children as part of The Electric Company TV series. The two spies pretended to be a professional tennis player Culp traveling with his coach Cosby. The show ran for three years, and Cosby received three consecutive Emmy Awards for his work. Not long after I Spy ended, Cosby starred in his own sitcom. The Bill Cosby Show ran for two seasons, from to , and featured the comedian as a gym teacher at a Los Angeles high school.
A former aspiring teacher, Cosby went back to school at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst. Around the same time, he appeared on the educational children's series The Electric Company , and developed the animated series Fat Albert and the Cosby Kids , which he based on many of his childhood experiences. In , Cosby received a doctorate in urban education from the university, having written his dissertation on Fat Albert. Cosby had received the degree via nontraditional methods, with his screen work reportedly counting toward course credits.
On the big screen, Cosby enjoyed box-office success with the comedy Uptown Saturday Night , co-starring Sidney Poitier and Harry Belafonte , with Poitier directing. Continuing to attract big audiences, he appeared opposite Poitier in two more comedy hits, Let's Do It Again and A Piece of the Action , in and , respectively.
Once again turning to his life for inspiration, Cosby began working on a new television series. The sitcom focused on an upper-middle-class African American couple with five children. Each of the children's characters shared some traits of their real-life counterparts. Married since , Cosby and his real-life wife, Camille, had four daughters and one son. She used the name Helen Selby when she was working. Her parents, William and Judy Thompson, say they met with Cosby when their daughter was 17, and that he promised to help their daughter, reassuring them she would be fine living in an apartment with other models as she launched her career.
At a February news conference, Lise-Lotte Lublin says that as a year-old model, she met Cosby at the Las Vegas Hilton Hotel and he asked her to perform an improvisation to evaluate her acting skills. She says he gave her two alcoholic drinks. When she awoke, Lublin said, she was home and her car was in the driveway. After hearing similar allegations from other women, she concluded something nefarious had happened to her. Her accusation came out at a news conference on Aug.
Do you hear me? I never wanna see your face again. Now get the hell out of here! Offering only her first name, Kacey tells reporters at a news conference that she met Cosby while working for the William Morris Agency. Food and wine were brought in, and Cosby gave her a large white pill to help her relax, she said. Kacey alleges she awoke later in a bed with Cosby wearing only an open robe. She says he asked her to act intoxicated and then got on top of her.
She pushed him off and he asked her to leave the room. The few films Cosby did earlier did not perform well. Cosby played Hilton Lucas, a forced retiree. Cosby receives the Kennedy Center Honors. Board of Education segregation case.
People getting shot in the back of the head over a piece of pound cake! I wanted a piece of pound cake just as bad as anybody else. And I looked at it and I had no money. In , Andrea Constand tells police that Cosby assaulted her a year earlier at his mansion in Cheltenham, Penn. The former Temple University employee said he invited her home after a dinner, gave her pills for stress and tension, then helped her to a sofa when she became dizzy and sick.
She awoke with her clothing in disarray. Instead, she said she contacted a lawyer. In July , a judge released court documents revealing that Cosby admitted in that he got Quaaludes, a hypnotic sedative used recreationally as a party drug, with the intent of giving them to young women he wanted to have sex with. In the court documents, he said he had given Constand three half-pills of Benadryl but did not admit to giving her Quaaludes.
Chloe Goins, a model, meets with Los Angeles police in January to discuss her allegations that Cosby drugged and sexually assaulted her at the Playboy Mansion in She is the first woman accusing Cosby of sexual misconduct whose case may fall within the statute of limitations.
In a Jan. I can talk down to you because I had a successful sitcom. A flood of allegations begin surfacing. Currently, about 45 women have said they were assaulted by Cosby.
Pennsylvania authorities charge Bill Cosby with sexually assaulting a woman at his home 12 years ago — the first criminal charges brought against the comedian. In bringing the case, Montgomery County Dist.
Risa Vetri Ferman overruled her predecessor, who declined to charge Cosby in when Temple University employee Andrea Constand first told police that the comic drugged her and violated her by putting his hands down her pants at his mansion in suburban Philadelphia.
Los Angeles prosecutors on Wednesday declined to bring criminal charges against Bill Cosby in the only two open cases locally in which he is accused of sexually assaulting women. The move comes less than a week after prosecutors in Pennsylvania filed the first charges against Cosby, accusing him of drugging and sexually assaulting a year-old woman. They had mounted a case over the last two days arguing that former Montgomery County Dist.
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